TELEGRAM TO THE POOR PEASANTS’ COMMITTEES OF YELETS UYEZD

Published:First published in part on January 21, 1927, inKrasnaya ZvezdaNo. 17.

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17. IX. 1918

Toall volost Poor Peasants’ Committees of Yelets UyezdYelets

By circular

Yourtelegrams
received.[1]

Itis impossible to confine oneself to general and vague
expressions, which too often conceal the complete failure
of the work. Accurate weekly figures are essential: first,
exactly what part of the grain surpluses has been
collected and delivered by which volosts; second, exactly how
many poods of grain have been delivered, and to which
elevators and granaries.

Withoutsuch data, all the rest is mere verbosity. Reply
more exactly.

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]Telegramsfrom the Poor Peasants’ Committees of Yelets Uyezd,
Orel Gubernia, were sent to Lenin in reply to his letter to Sereda,
People’s Commissar for Agriculture (see this volume, Document
178).